Jun 23, 2010

Cubanita's been out, redecorating her personal life.
Blogging and Twittering will be light during this summer... I still have a lot of pictures to hang and furniture to move in this life of mine. And need time to hang out with friends and family on Facebook :-)

Jun 8, 2010

Yesterday, the Mexican investigative magazine Proceso published an article unveiling the ties of corrupt Mexican officials and the Cuban governments - intelligence ties and Castro's relatives included - with traffic of illegal immigrants (and who knows what else) from Cuba to the United Sates.

Greg Sánchez and his wife, Niurka Sáliva – in complicity with ex spies from Cuba and officials from the Benito Juárez municipality (where Cancún is located) – set up an organization to traffic illegal immigrants from the island to the Quintana Roo. Even though the phenomenon of the immigration from the island is not new, this time it was a huge scale operation. And to achieve their goal, Greg’s advisors created a whole series of fake companies and businesses.

I´m out of the loop for a few days to revamp this tired Cuban brain, and the dirty laundry from the tropical gulag does not cease to amuse me. Well, honestly, I am not that surprised.

In the past few days, in Mexico blew up the corruption bomb surrounding the candidate for governor of the state of Quintana Roo - where Cancun is.

UPDATE: A dissection of how this mess is tied to Arizona, the recent immigration legislation passed in the state and Castro's bashed against it - courtesy our very own Humberto Fontova - can be read here.

Gregorio “Greg” Sánchez Martínez, the leftist (voilá!) candidate for governor of Quintana Roo was arrested for money laundering and trafficking (Cuban, Chinese and Russian) illegal immigrants, exposing the ties between the Cuban intelligence and the Mexican narcos.

"… five years ago, there were 893 Cubans residing in Quintana Roo. It was the third largest foreign community in the Mexican state, after the Americans (2,213) and the Argentinians (1011). Now that cluster has grow six times, according to the state’s government that reports more than 6,000 Cuban residents and during the last two years, it is notorious the presence of Cubans in the municipal government, local businesses, tourism and illegal ventures."

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... a Cuban Mom, living in the land of life, freedom and the pursue of happiness; passionate about writing, politics and reading. Born fan of Cuban music and salsa dancing. I'm a former newspaper reporter that now makes a living on a different venue. A conservative American, born in Cuba, that doesn't believe in redistribution of wealth. Opinionated, passionate and politically incorrect. I lived most of my life muzzled down by a communist dictatorship, therefore, I refuse to be censored again. So there is... now, take me as I am...or watch me as I walk away. :)